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Episode Number: 90
Episode Title: Too Many Boobs (listen to this episode)
Transcript by: Susan the Great
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Renay: Hello friends! I'm Renay.
Ana: And I'm Ana.
Renay: And you're listening to Fangirl Happy Hour.
[music break]
Renay: Today we're back! We've both been having very interesting days, so this episode is going to be excellent.
Ana: I think the whole world has been having interesting days.
Renay: We're recording this on Tuesday and by the time it comes out, Tuesday's going to feel like it was nineteen years ago.
Ana: Yes, and who knows who in the White House will remain.
Renay: I feel like we should take bets.
Ana: I would say the next one is gonna be Sessions.
Renay: The president isn't going to fire him. The president is gonna move him. Because the president is allowed to shift around cabinet members.
Ana: That's true, but isn't that what he did about Sean Spicer? He moved him?
Renay: Who can predict anything this administration is going to do? But that is my guess. Your guess is Sessions? So I guess when this episode comes out our listeners can tweet us and tell us if we were right. Okay, we'll talk about politics for three hours if we continue.
Ana: Oh yeah, we can't. Let's move on.
Renay: Let's get into some feedback and updates. We got several messages since the last episode. From Anonymous on Tumblr; they said, "I like that you have Patreon now, but I don't have the funds to pledge every month even at the one dollar level. I might have it in the future, but not now. I could do a one-time pledge but don't know how to do it. Do you have any way to help your fan bees who want to contribute but can't month to month?"
Ana, I would like to point out that you've started a trend. Well, whoever wrote us the first message with the term fan bees started the trend, and then you encouraged the trend.
Ana: I'm not sorry. I'm very proud.
Renay: I don't know how to answer this question. I guess Paypal? But I feel really weird about being like, "Yes, here's my personal paypal address you can just send me random money."
Ana: I would say that there were other ways to contribute as well? Kind of like reblogging our posts, retweeting, and just talking us up. It doesn't have to be a monetary contribution because we know that not everybody can afford it and we appreciate anything that people will do to help us getting our names out there.
Renay: Listen, I love retweets and I wish our episode announcements got more retweets even though I know I'm really bad at writing tweets, period.
Ana: Or Facebook, Instagram, anything. Any social media helps.
Renay: We're on Instagram?
Ana: Yeah?
Renay: We are?
Ana: No.
Renay: Ana has just given me another social media account to manage.
Ana: No, no I take it back. I take it back. The point being contribution doesn't have to be financial. Any help is much appreciated.
Renay: Currently the US is on fire, so if you were selling or advertising anything, anything, a book, a movie, an album, a podcast: it is very hard to get traction in this environment. We love our patrons. We totally appreciate them. If you can't become one right now, boosting our episode announcements are pretty much the number one thing that you can do for us. Go into iTunes and rating our podcasts another number one thing you can do for us. Just so we're not being buried under the news, which is a trash fire every single day.
Ana: Yeah, sometimes it feels very awkward to be talking about media and our podcast or our blogs or books when everything's on fire.
Renay: You can't do all news all politics all serious business all the time. You have to have breaks, you have to have fun, and that's kinda what we use this for. We do talk about politics here because it's kind of hard to ignore, but we're also really focused on having fun. So yeah, helping us get our episodes out there, our show, so that new people who want to talk about media and other cool stuff can find us? Helps a lot.
Ana: Yep.
Renay: Next, from Carla: they wrote, "I was listening to your latest episode where you give recommendations for steampunk books, and considering Ana is Brazilian I thought of recommending a Brazilian and Portuguese anthology called Vaporpunk." Pause. Ana, will you please read this?
Ana: Okay. So I'm gonna resay the name of the title as well, because it would sound differently in Portuguese. So Vaporpunk: Relatos Steampunk Publicados sob as Ordens de Suas Majestades.
Renay: "To be honest, I haven't read all of it, I bought when I was into the steampunk aesthetics. I love the books by Meljean Brook and Gail Carriger, but then, as Ana, I got a bit fed up with it and turned my reading elsewhere. However, now and again, when I'm looking for short fiction, which doesn't happen often, I turn to it and have read a couple of interesting stories that deal with the social side of industrialisation and colonization, mainly in a Portuguese setting, Africa, and Brazil. Keep up the good work! I love listening to you." Carla: thank you for your message. We love hearing from you.
Ana: And this book actually sounds amazing.
Renay: I love that we're getting book recs in other languages, because I know we're very English-focused podcast. So I love it when people are like, "Hey, just in case, you can mention this book!"
Ana: I know that we have at least three Brazilian listeners. This could be very useful, so thank you Carla.
Renay: We also got another email about the steampunk episode, from David. "Hi Renay and Ana, in episode 88 you were asking about recs of steampunk that's more broadly representative. What about Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor, which was a 2015 Hugo runner-up for best novel? I'm not sure if you consider it properly steampunk, but it certainly has steampunk elements. Airship travel, the folding mechanical bridge proposal, possibly others. The elf-goblin dynamic portrays issues of racism and nationalism as Maia, the half-goblin outcast, the youngest son of the old emperor, is suddenly elevated to the throne of people who regard him as an uncouth barbarian when all those ahead of him in the succession are killed in a tragic airship accident that may not be accident. It's an excellent book that got a lot of love from the Hugo voters."
Ana: We both loved this book very much.
Renay: We really did. I love this book.
Ana: I'm not sure it is—I would consider it steampunk.
Renay: I think the reason I didn't consider it steampunk is because of the context. Because Maia fits himself into the context of this world instead of trying to undo it.
Ana: For me it was maybe because it's too fantasy and less tech-y.
Renay: There are tech elements but they're very much in the background. For instance, if Addison wrote a sequel about Maia reinventing the kingdom and doing more work with the bridge, and riding on airships, and being more of an active agent in changing how the culture works, I might call that what we're looking as steampunk.
Ana: Maybe we should contact Katherine Addison. Please write this book, Katherine.
Renay: And then come on our podcast and talk about The Goblin Emperor, because we loved it. So everybody who sent in recs for steampunk books, thank you very much. There's a lot of good steampunk stuff out there.
Ana: Mm-hm.
Renay: So update-wise, as recording we're almost to a hundred dollars on Patreon, thanks to all the folks who have become patrons recently, we appreciate you very much. We also have changed our five dollar reward level to a digital fanzine instead of a physical fanzine. If you were a patron before July 30th of this year, you will get the physical copy and it will be the only one ever produced because the US postal service is a mess. And we're still looking for ideas for higher reward levels, because I'm sure there's people out there who want to give us more money than five dollars a month. Right? I'm sure. I'm positive. Let's be positive.
Ana: Of course.
Renay: And finally, Ana: what's the haps?
Ana: I'm going to Worldcon! Worldcon starts on the 9th of August in Helsinki and I will be there! And if you are a fanbee come talk to me! We can maybe get into some recording shenanigans for Renay. I will be hanging out with Thea and with Renay's co-editors of Lady Business, just after twelve on Friday morning. And if you wanna come over and say hello to all of us, we will be at a place that will be announced on Twitter, I guess.
Renay: If you wanna meet the person who did our show art, you can! Because Ira will be there!
Ana: Ira will be there! And Susan, who does our transcript! Oh my god, the whole team! Apart from Renay.
Renay: Awwww. I'm sorry that I'm poor.
Ana: One day, Renay, we shall meet in person.
Renay: What media have you consumed since we last talked about media that we have consumed?
Ana: I am all caught up with Halt and Catch Fire, which is a TV show from AMC about techie advances in the eighties. Basically it's about four geniuses, I guess, that are always at the forefront of computer advances, but for some reason they are so fucked up that their plans never work out. So basically they invented the first laptop, but couldn't get it to run. They worked on gaming and created the first online money-exchange kind of thing, before eBay, but it also didn't work because of their personalities. And it's really cool. One of the main characters, played by Lee Pace, is bisexual, and it's very clear on-screen. So I just watched series three over the weekend and I really liked it. It's fucked up, but I like.
And I also read: dun dun duuuuuun, Provenance by Ann Leckie, which was incredible. If you want to compare it to the Ancillary books I would say it's more to Ancillary Mercy than it is to Ancillary Justice. It's more like a personal story rather than a huge scope story like Ancillary Justice was, but this one is also very different because even though it has a found family element to it, too, but it's lighter, it's funny, it's fun, and it's a heist in space. Guys, it's a heist in space, you have to read it. It's out in September, and that's it. [laughter] That's all that I have time to do.
Renay: You're so busy! Well also, I'm behind on putting things into my eyeballs, because we just recently had a healthcare explosion here. But I did finish a few things.
I read, and loved, The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco. It is an epic fantasy about a girl who has the power to raise the dead. And the book opens with her raising her brother from the dead. I say it's epic fantasy because it's very much about girl finds out she has powers, goes off to the big city, and learns how to fit into her magical order. There's also what I think is a genderqueer character, there's also a trans character, and their stories don't end badly at all? And I realized after I finished the book that I was never worried about them. You know how sometimes you'll read a book and you'll meet a queer character and you worry about them, you're like, "Oh no!" But I didn't do that here. I was really impressed with the world building. Obviously, it's me, I'm not super crazy about the romance that the book is setting up, but everything else was lovely, all the friendships. And the main character has important relationships with a lot of women around her. It was a wonderful book.
I am not done with but almost, so I'm gonna put it on the list, with the book Give Us The Ballot by Ari Berman. It's a book about voting rights and the decision that the Supreme Court made in Shelby v. Holder that gutted a section of the Voting Rights Act, that made it possible for the South to start suppressing the black vote again. When you suppress the black vote, you can also catch up a bunch of poor whites; people who are disabled. Works real well for people who don't want people who lean Democrat to vote. And it also goes into the history of the fight for the Voting Rights Act, and all the people who worked to make it possible, all the people who defended it, all the people who made sure it was implemented properly. It's a very angry-making book. I was supposed to be reading it at night before bed. Mm-mm. Nope. Nope. Can't do it. Cause I got real angry and I had to not do that anymore. I was going to bed and then wanting to wake Zach up for a rant about gerrymandering.
Ana: [laughter]
Renay: Do not wake your partner up at 2am to rant about gerrymandering just protip for anybody who has a marriage. And then I read The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin.
Ana: How does it end?
Renay: I'm not telling you how it ends!
Ana: Okay, different question. Was I right about Alabaster? Is that a no, or is that I'm not telling you?
Renay: That's an I'm not telling you.
Ana: I was totally right about Alabaster.
Renay: Alabaster's not in the book really. This is a book about a mother and her daughter. It's a book about Hoa.
Ana: [gasp] Is there hot sex between Hoa and—?
Renay: You think I'm give you all these answers? You have to wait and read the book, Ana!
Ana: I can't! I'm just asking the most important questions!
Renay: I can't say anything without spoiling this book! I'm realizing now that I want to describe it to everybody, but it's not out yet because I read an ARC so nobody can even read it unless they have an ARC.
Ana: I have an ARC.
Renay: Well you should go read it, and then you would know the answer to all your questions.
Ana: When's it out?
Renay: August 15th here.
Ana: What?! So soon? That's what I'm gonna be doing in Helsinki.
Renay: You're gonna go to a convention and read a book? [laughter]
Ana: On the airplane? I don't know when I'm gonna have time.
Renay: When do we ever have time to put all these grat books into our face? Anyway, what I will say is that every book that N. K. Jemisin writes, she gets better, and better, and better. I don't know how I'm gonna be able to handle it in like twenty years. I guess what's gonna happen is that in 2042 she's gonna publish something, it's gonna arrive to my house as my pre-order book, I'm gonna open the box, assuming they're still using boxes in that decade, and it's gonna shine so brightly that I disintegrate. The book itself will just make me disintegrate as soon as I open the package. I'll look at the cover and then I'll disintegrate.
Ana: That's so much love.
Renay: Anyway, I think it's a perfect ending to this series.
Ana: Did you cry?
Renay: I cried. I loved the ending. I loved the middle. I loved the beginning. I loved the antagonist, because of just how creative it was and how it tied back to previous things in other books. I loved all the new world building. It was lovely and I can't wait for everybody to read it. Ten thousand space bees.
Renay: Avengers: The Children's Crusade is by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, and is published by Marvel as part of the Young Avengers collection of comics that we are reading based on a rec list from my friend Memory. So this comic was about two of the Young Avengers, Billy and Thomas, and how they believe that Scarlet Witch might be their mom. And so they go up against the Avengers and the X-Men by teaming up with Magneto to find their mother who has been missing and is presumed dead?
Ana: Yeah, because the thing is this is a major crossover event for several Marvel entities. so it's kind of like the mutants and Avengers and then the Young Avengers and it also has lots of time travel and going backwards and forwards. But it ties in with this House of M event that occurred in the Marvel universe prior to this series in which the Scarlet Witch goes completely off script; loses her mind when she loses her two sons? And basically loses control of her powers and ends up removing the power of the vast majority of mutants in the Marvel universe. And then she disappears and everybody thinks she's dead. And in here we find out what was going on? With the Scarlet Witch, who spoilers, is not dead. She's actually hiding with Doctor Doom without any memory. And then Billy and Tommy go after her and find their mom.
Renay: I had some feelings about this comic. Ana, what are your feelings?
Ana: I had feelings. [laughter] Complicated feelings.
So I had not read the House of M storyline, so I was thrown in the middle of this huge event. I wasn't completely lost, because I thought the comic did a somewhat good job of catching up what happened so that I was not completely lost. But it also presented the problem of a crossover event in which there is just too many people, too many things happening. And it did that thing that Marvel tends to do, especially with the X-Men comic, which is the retcon.
Scarlet Witch did not actually do those things. It was actually an entity. And this is not the first time that a really powerful female character is just taken over by an entity to do things. [sigh] It's bot the first time, that that happens with really powerful female characters.
I liked a lot of things about it, of course I liked the whole Billy and Tommy storyline. And Billy and Teddy, boyfriends. And the art was beautiful apart from the fact when the women were kinda like had huge boobs staring me in the face.
I saw too many boobs.
Renay: Also, if you looked, all the women looked almost exactly alike. Their faces? Can this dude not draw women? No! Apparently he can't.
Ana: You have things happening to a couple of the Young Avengers that I'm not sure how I feel about. So for example the only black one is suddenly responsible for a major fuck-up and I felt so bad for him. And did it have to be the one Black character in the entire comic?
Renay: Of course it did. And then—
Ana: They killed Cassie. They killed the Vision. And I'm not sure why. So I have feelings, not all of them positive. We weren't very much into the previous one that we read.
Renay: The Young Avengers Presents was very disjointed. And then we get this one and the whole team's together, but every time the Young Avengers get involved in, like, really like Earth-shattering events it feels like it takes away from them a little bit? And you don't get as much of them and I want comics about them and their adventures, that feel smaller, but still important.
This is a crossover event where these two kids were supposed to be finding their mom and that gets overshadowed by this whole big showdown between the Avengers and the Young Avengers and Doctor Doom and Magneto and the X-Men. And it just gets too busy. There's too much going on and it robs the Young Avengers of this storyline, especially with Billy and his mom, in a way that I just don't think serves the characters that well.
Ana: No, I agree with that.
Renay: I did not like the character deaths especially with Cassie. It felt like she died to make men feel things. And then she dies and it's almost like an afterthought almost. People barely comment on it right after it happens. They just have discussions over her dead body and I'm just like, "What the fuck is happening here?!" This is what I mean by it being too full. And the Vision died in a ridiculous way and I'm so sick of character death being used this way. And I get that it's comics, but this is my main problem with comics, right? Is that they use character death in such a casual way to make it not matter anymore.
Ana: Pretty much every single character makes a return at some point in the Marvel universe, so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't at some point make a return. Which just makes the deaths even emptier.
Renay: And also gratuitous.
Ana: Absolutely.
Renay: So all the parts I liked about the Children's Crusade came when it was about the kids and the premise of the book, which is two of them looking for their mother; Their personal relationships with each other; how they make decisions; how they don't make decisions. All the other stuff just felt like a mess. It just felt like a mess.
Ana: What did you think about the huge point made in the comic with regards to forgiving Scarlet Witch for what she's done. And the point made was that every single Avenger or X-Men has had a bad past, or killed someone, or has had an event in which they caused misery. And this why they had to forgive her because she was not the only one.
Renay: This comic wasn't the place for that, because that is a very complicated and nuanced discussion, it just felt like…
Ana: Just thrown out there.
Renay: This was like, "Hey, you guys were shit heads too, back off!" That's basically what they use this as, and I mean sure, if you want to have a discussion about responsibility and accountability: great, perfect. But when you use one issue and use it as a sledgehammer to guilt people: sure, writers. Whatever.
Ana: This had really good elements; good moments.
Renay: The first four issues? I thought the first four issues were great.
Renay: I really liked those first four issues, and then as everything starts to explode and go off the rails and everybody's fighting each other the Young Avengers end up in the back of their own story.
Ana: I did like seeing some of my favorite X-Men though.
Renay: Ana's love for X-Men.
Ana: Wolverine and Scott Summers were such douchebags. Oh, I love them.
Renay: Wolverine in this one, he's like, "Yeah, let's kill some kids," and I'm like, "Are you insane?!"
Ana: Well, okay, the context for that is that obviously being a mutant is so important for them and because we didn't see the House of M, we don't see how they were affected by the decimation of their people.
Renay: Yeah, but you don't go kill kids just because their mother was the one who—to do it.
Ana: I know.
Renay: Wolverine: chill. Take a nap.
And I understand that ultimately Doom was gonna become an important part of this, but I just discovered that I only like Doctor Doom really when written by Bendis or Ryan North.
Ana: When he's fighting off Squirrel Girl and losing?
Renay: Yeah. But I wanted to like this comic more than I did.
Ana: Yeah, me too.
Renay: I wanted more Young Avengers and guess we're gonna have to go to the…
Ana: The reboot, right?
Renay: That's where we're gonna have to go, I guess, because…
Ana: Nope.
Renay: No. I liked some of what they do and then they get caught up in this whole big universe-changing fights and events and they lose the charm. They just become faces in a crowd while you have your superhero battle.
We love the Young Avengers and we liked part of this, especially the parts with the actual Young Avengers and their story, not the big fight sequences between adults who should know better. But overall, how many space bees are you gonna give this?
Ana: I would give it two? Three?
Renay: I'm giving it three.
Renay: Because those first four issues were great and I really loved Billy and Teddy.
Ana: They're the cutest!
Renay: It was so well done. It was super positive and supportive throughout the whole thing.
Well, that's how our Young Avengers adventures are going. I guess we'll continue onto the next one and hopefully we'll like it more.
Renay: Over the years, I've struggled to get into traditional comics. Part of that because the way you get comics is really outdated.
Diamond is a distributor and you go into comics shops and you order them. It's a fucking headache. You can do it digitally but I'm really bad at digital comics. And discovery is a problem. How do you discover new comics? Every time I ask my comic guy, "Hey, how do I discover new comics coming out?" he will lead me right over to the shelf and show me the preview books that all the publishers put out, like Marvel and DC, Image, they put out these preview volumes with upcoming comics that you can order. It's like reading another language!
How do we each find the comics we read? And maybe we can discuss ways that we both find comics and teach each other some new ways.
Ana: One of the things that be a little bit scary is the sheer quantity of it, too. A prime example of this is what we just discussed. For example Young Avengers—this particular volume we read just now—being part of a larger event that was a crossover between Avengers and X-Men. And how do we find out where to start with, for example where to start with X-Men, where to start with Avengers or any number of comics coming out? Not only from Marvel but DC and Image, etcetera.
I have not been following as many comics as before first because money and two because there's so many of it and discoverability is an issue. My main source is my friend Karen. She knows everything there is to know about comics and then whenever she finds something new she tells me. Or she gives me—so she gave me my first volume of Preacher, for example, or pointed me out toward Atomic Girl and a number of others. But other than that I guess I just pay attention on twitter and I see other people talking about comics. And of course then I follow the ones that I love. But I haven't been reading as much as before at all.
Renay: It gets really overwhelming. If you're outside of comics it can feel like the whole industry is just moving past you extremely fast because of the way issues drop, and then trades, and new comics get announced sometimes years before they even debut. And it just feels like the industry's moving so fast and there's so much new stuff coming out that it's hard to keep up and I struggle with this a whole lot. It's kind of like FOMO constantly.
Ana: What's FOMO?
Renay: Fear of missing out.
Ana: Oh! I've never heard this before.
Renay: Now you know what it feels like. That feeling you get when you're watching Twitter and all these people are talking about this new great comic and you're like what? What do you mean this new great comic? Why haven't I heard about this new great comic? And you're like "Crap! I'm behind!" That fear of missing out will make you go nuts. It's the worst feeling and I get it all the time in comics, especially in comics.
So the main discoverability I have for comics is my comic shop where I have specifically asked him to remember comics wit space or robots, or comics with really great female characters. My comic guy's not the greatest ever. I've still not really forgiven for yelling at me about rape in comics in front of the entire shop. Still mad about that.
Ana: Hm!
Renay: But on the plus side, he does remember! He has a great memory. When I ask him he is often ready with recommendations. So on the plus side if you can find a comic shop and your comic shop is run by good people who are not gonna be assholes to you. I just don't have any other options, like I live in a rural area, I have one comic shop here. If I wanna do issues, that's where I have to go.
An unrelated rant about issues! I really hate the feeling that you get that if you don't buy issues you're not supporting the comic and you're contributing to it getting cancelled. I hate that. That guilt. My advice is never to get into issues. Stay away. Bad news. I understand that issues are the way that a lot of comics survive, but I don't think it's sustainable. How do you feel about issues?
Ana: I don't read issues. For two reasons: first of all, I don't like to wait a month to get a storyline, so I prefer to read in trade for a more complete experience. And it's also costly.
Renay: Yep.
Ana: Especially in the UK where you have import prices.
Renay: I just don't understand this system. No. That's wrong. I do understand it, but I don't understand why the industry is clinging to this system that doesn't seem like it's gonna be sustainable much longer.
Ana: So I don't know what would be the replacement?
Renay: I have no idea. I wish I did but I don't know enough about comics. But I know enough that economy-wise I don't understand how going forward we're gonna be able to afford five dollar issues.
One time Marvel tried to charge me like five dollars for one issue. Not even extra pages or anything. Just an issue was $4.99.
Ana: I guess it's very expensive to produce.
Renay: I'm gonna get so many angry emails going, "Renay, you know nothing! Stop lecturing people!" But it's confusing!
Anyway, other ways I get comic recs: I use Edelweiss a whole lot. It's a publisher resource where they put like upcoming books and review copy on it. Netgalley's also great for seeing what's coming up soon. Then I am also that person who is stalking you on Goodreads looking at your excited for, to-be-read, can't wait shelves.
Ana: I subscribe to Image comics newsletter. They are pretty good at sending you updates on what they have coming up. Same with Marvel. I suppose DC must have one, too. I just don't care about DC enough to subscribe to their newsletter. But this is a good way, too.
And if there are publishers! For example there are publishers of graphic novels, that don't produce monthlies or issues, it's just the whole novel. For example, First Second books, they are excellent and they have really interesting projects coming up so it's a good way of knowing about them and it's just subscribe to their email.
Renay: I brainstormed some ways that you could find out about comics, and I don't know how accurate and good these will be, but I thought about it? Because sometimes I use these.
Number one is to follow people who know about comics. This is the thing that I did, this is how I get into comics. A lot of my friends get into comics and then slowly they sucked me in too. Thanks a lot guys. I mean, yeah, thanks, but also, thanks.
Renay: Then the second one was look for starter packs. The internet is beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. These days a lot of people are putting out like, "Where to get started with comics!" lists, and because the indies are starting to be more important and do well, you can also find starter packs for less mainstream comics, like the not the big two.
Then there are comics sites, my favorite comics site is womenwriteaboutcomics.com and I've discovered super interesting comics there from the people writing their thoughts and reviews about specific comics or specific comic characters.
Then there are comics podcasts, which I actually don't listen to that much. The only podcast I listen to that touches on comics right now is Nerds of Prey. And there's also Jay and Miles X-plain the X-men, which you like!
Ana: I love it. It's excellent. I haven't listened to it in a while. If you want to understand the X-Men or if you want to—if you love the X-Men already it's just a great podcast to listen to.
Renay: You can also dig around on Goodreads. You can go in and set your favorite genres and then you can also get emails about new releases in that genre. So if you're into graphic novels or comics they have those genres and you can sign up for them.
And a new thing that I've discovered since I've started paying attention to conventions is that a lot of cons now will have comic panels, and people will livetweet those panels, and they will livetweet the recommendations of panelists, who are often very knowledgeable about comics, will make. And I have found multiple comics that sound amazing. This is how I found out about a new comic called Moonstruck that's coming out from Image by Grace Ellis, which sounds super cute. It takes some legwork because you have to go and google, but it's a great resource. So if you know of a con that's coming up and you have people that will be there livetweeting those panels. You can also search Twitter while panels are happening and find what people are saying about the panel. It's very handy.
Ana: Those all seem like very reasonable places to start.
Renay: And this doesn't even cover webcomics. I am so behind on webcomics. The only webcomic I read is Check Please.
Ana: I'm behind on that so much.
Renay: There's so much out there and it can be really hard. Well, I'm just trusting that everybody who reads comics is listening to this segment now and just getting so fired up about how wrong we are or how incomplete our knowledge is, they're already in their email program writing an email to us right now. Don't let us down, guys!
Ana: Do it!
Renay: Last year, Ana and I made a bookish trade. I would read the whole Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner if she would read my favorite Star Trek Reboot fic, called War Games by Seperis. As of now, I've completed the whole series by Megan Whalen Turner, plus the book that was released this year, which was not part of the original agreement.
Ana: And which I have not read yet.
Renay: To my great disappointment. And finally Ana has completed War Games by Seperis, which is fair because it was like a hundred and eight thousand words.
Ana: I also read prequels to this that you sent to me.
Renay: You'll Get There In The End (It Just Takes A While)?
Renay: There was another one, too. I said you could skip one of them.
Ana: I read all of them.
Renay: I'm very proud of her for completing the challenge because she is very busy.
Ana: I think this is the biggest piece of fanfiction that I have ever read.
Renay: I'm so proud. I'm so proud.
Ana: About something that I wasn't particularly invested in. I mean, I used to love Star Trek growing up so much. Not really the original show, but the movies? And definitely the New Generation with Patrick Stewart. And even though I liked the reboots I'm not so much into them as I was the original movies. They are very influential to me growing up.
Renay: I liked the first reboot movie and I thought the second and the third were trash.
Ana: Yes, basically.
Renay: Why would you do this to poor Star Trek? It deserved better.
Renay: They're good for like generic space movies, but I don't expect generic space movie from Star Trek. I remember some of the Star Trek movies from my childhood with the New Generation, having really important philosophical center and the new movies don't have that.
Ana: No, they don't. They don't. They don't.
Renay: I just leave the new movies alone and just read fanfic. It works out great for me because fandom does amazing work. Okay, so I guess we can start with, "Did you like this story?"
Ana: I liked parts of it. Yeah.
Renay: What parts did you like?
Ana: The romance. [laughter]
Renay: The romance is a very small part of this story!
Ana: It's not a small part of that—but I just devoured it. What do you mean it's a small part of it? How—it's the whole thing!
Renay: Well they don't—they don't bang that much, Ana!
Ana: Well no, but that's not the most important thing.
Renay: Oh, well, the other stuff, sure, yes.
Ana: It was their connection! The pull and and the trying to understand each other and the getting inside each other's minds and connection in their relationship. And when that—that was severed, it's like so hard. He has to go and rescue Kirk, like a Regency heroine. [laughter]
Renay: So for people who have not read this fic, because I'm assuming that nobody that doesn't read fanfic knows what the hell we're talking about. The whole premise is that in the first film, Original Spock melded with Jim and basically because he had melded with Jim in his world, Jim in the new universe picked up the bond that he and Jim had in his universe. Long story short, Reboot!Jim and Spock end up married.
Ana: In the Vulcan way. Pon…
Renay: I'm not explaining Pon'Farr to people. They can google it. And the story that we read, that I had Ana read, the main one that I wanted her to read, was about what happens when the Federation and the Romulan Empire are on the brink of war. And how the crew of the Enterprise deals with that encroaching war and also the Vulcan colony after the Vulcans are wiped out and their new xenophobia.
Ana: Which affects directly the bond between Jim and Spock, because for them it's about purity of their race and they have been severing the connection between bonded mates that were not both Vulcan.
Renay: Like as a mystery, I thought this story was really well done.
Ana: It was. It was. I wanted to have seen more of the other crew. It's very much centred on Jim and Spock and then the mystery. We barely see the other ones apart from maybe Uhura and Bones. But not as much as I would have liked, not as much as I liked seeing for example, in—in the movies that I loved.
Renay: They are replaced in this story mostly by some original characters. There is a cadet. She is super great. Like when I think about original female characters that I love she's at the top of the list.
Ana: And then I liked how Jim sometimes thought of her as a kid, as his kid, and I'm like, "You're not that old." But that actually fit my mental image because even though this is reboot, it was still Shatner and Nimoy in my head throughout. They are my Jim and Spock. However, at some point during this Nimoy was replaced by Quinto. I did not replace Jim. So it was Shatner and Quinto throughout this whole thing in my head.
Renay: I just wanna let everybody know what Ana is saying here is that she has imagined both Shatner and Nimoy having—just excellent sex. But also Shatner and Quinto. This is what her mental imagery is producing. I am so excited! [laughter]
Ana: At some point, at some point, I need to update my mental image of Jim, because William Shatner was just being awful on Twitter just the other day and I'm like, "Must you destroy my memories of Star Trek? Please shut up!"
Renay: Old white men: Collect your people. Come and collect them.
Ana: [laughter] Renay, that's awful. [laughter]
Renay: What?! It's true! Not all of them hit sixty and turn into curmudgeons! So the ones that don't need come collect their people! Help'em out! They need your help. They're struggling.
Okay. Fanfiction gets a lot of guff. People insult it. People treat it like it's a lesser form of writing.
Ana: No, the writing in this was excellent! Both in terms of writing skills, the prose itself, but also the development of the arc and the story and everything.
Renay: So how would you compare this to, say, a traditionally published science fiction novel?
Ana: Same levels. Probably even better than most.
Renay: I mean this is what I wanted you to learn.
Ana: I knew that already!
Renay: I wanted to show you the reason that some of us will read three books a year and then read one million words of fanfic.
Ana: I kind of like knew that already, even though I had not read extensively.
Renay: Well you know that now! I think when we started this process and we agreed to this thing, you were still pretty like, "Fandom? Fanfic? What?" I've trained you well in the last year.
Ana: But I think for me is I find it really difficult to go beyond canon.
Renay: What is canon, anyway?
Ana: I know. Maybe I am one of those old cum—how do you do you say that word? Cumudge—how do you say it?
Renay: Curmudgeon?
Ana: Curmudgeon. Maybe I am an old curmudgeon.
Renay: I don't think so.
Ana: But it was really good. Especially the romance. The final scene with them with the beach. Was like so hot. [laughter]
[sighs] Quinto and Shatner. I'm so sorry.
Renay: Ha, I'm not. That's amazing. I don't think I'm ever going to get you into fanfic like I am, but what's gonna be really funny is that what happens when I start publishing fanfic for Thick as Thieves? What are you gonna do? Are you gonna be tempted at all?
Ana: I think I will. I don't know.
Renay: I've already—I've already blown your position out of the water by tempting you with Thick as Thieves fic. Although you might not like the novel and then you might never want to read anything by Megan Whalen Turner ever again.
Ana: Doubtful.
Renay: Well I'm not Megan Whalen Turner. My fanfic is not gonna be the same level at all. It's gonna be about kittens, and Costis, and kittens.
Ana: Okay, so this Sunday I'm gonna read this book. It's my vow.
Renay: What are you recommending today?
Ana: I'm recommending Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn, the sequel to Heroine Complex from last year. And it's a fun, light, funny novel that is about two superheroine best friends that grow apart, but then find the way to each other? It's also about Aveda Jupiter finding herself again after everything she knew about herself kind of like doesn't work anymore. And learning to be a good friend, and learning to fall in love with her crush from high school, I guess. It's so cute. It's funny and it's very hot, and I love this book so much.
What about you? I can see that you have like three recommendations. Three. Three. One two three.
Renay: I'll do the two that are shortest first. People might be aware of Steve Mnuchin going to the Senate to be interviewed, and Maxine Waters, who is a congressman from California, asked him a question, and he started answering the question by complimenting her, and she starting saying, "Reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time." When people are trying to run down your time and not answer your questions you can reclaim your time as part of the rules of that body. And somebody wrote a song using that as a prompt. It's like this gospel style piece of brilliance. It's beautiful and the song is by Mykal Kilgore. It's brilliant and if you haven't seen it yet, it's gonna be in our show notes, please go watch it, give him a thumbs up, retweet him, spread this far and wide. This song is now my new motto for 2017. It's my theme song.
The second short one is a short film called In A Heartbeat by Beth David and Esteban Bravo. It was going around my twitter feed yesterday. It's this adorable film about a boy who has a crush and his heart escapes and goes chasing after the boy he likes, and… It's so cute Ana. I don't even know how to explain how cute this short film is. It's like bittersweet but heartwarming and adorable and the animation is so great, and the colors are beautiful. Everybody go watch it. I's very short. It's like four minutes or something.
And then my last actual recommendation is The Sims 4. A game that I can't get Ana to play. Ever. For any reason. So a lot of people will meditate or whatever, for calmness, to reach zen. But me: I go build houses in the Sims 4. I love The Sims 4 so much. I used to play the original on, and I played Sims 2. I missed Sims 3 somehow, but Sims 4 is wonderful. I will build like four, five houses a week. It's so relaxing.
Ana: So you build houses and then do what?
Renay: Well, you can share the houses. I share a lot of houses. If you are a Sims 4 player, you can find me on Origin at bottleofshine or #heyheyrenay. we can become buds and we can trade houses.
Ana: Okay.
Renay: It's so hard to explain to people who don't play The Sims why The Sims is so great.
Ana: I have no idea.
Renay: I have The Sims Get Together. I have The Sims City Living. I have The Sims Get To Work. I have the Parenthood pack, and I have like Backyard and Patio stuff, and those are the only ones I have, gamepack wise. I'm saving up for more. I'm so excited. I want all of them. I want all the game packs and all the stuff so I can build amazing houses. Anyway, if you used to play the sims and you got away from it, it's time to go back, because it's great. And they do have toddlers now. So. Toddlers are in game. If that's a concern. For some people it's a concern.
Renay: Sims 4. Ten space bees. Okay Ana, tell people what we'll be talking about next time.
Ana: We finally get to read and discuss the first volume of the new Hawkeye starring Kate Bishop, please we'll have a very special interview you don't want to miss. You may think you know who it is, but we bet you'll be surprised.
Renay: Congratulations space bees, you made it to the end of episode 90!
Ana: Hooray!
Renay: Ira made our show art. Susan creates our transcripts which you can read at fangirlhappyhour.com. Our interstitial music this week—a word I learned from Jenny on this very podcast—is by Chuki Beats and Boxcat Games.
Ana: You can join us on Twitter at @fangirlpodcast. Please email us at any time at fangirlhappyhour@gmail.com, and you can also find us on Tumblr and Facebook. We are over on Patreon too, where you can support our work. Thank you so much.
Renay: Drink some water, go to bed on time, remember to snack regularly, and although the healthcare fight has ended FOR NOW, there's plenty to contact your reps about, so schedule in thirty minutes a day for some civic engagement.
Ana: If you read Star Trek fanfic, just try, just try, just once, to picture Shatner and Quinto shagging. You're welcome.
Renay: Thanks for listening space bees!
Ana: See you next episode.
Renay: I guess you're—the pitch of your voice, my cat is like, "Nope, don't like it!"
[beep]
Ana: I wonder what parties are like in the White House at the moment. If all of these men just sit down sucking their own cocks the whole time.
Renay: What are you looking at?
Ana: Twitter. [sigh]
Renay: Oh god, that's a heavy sigh. [laughter]
Renay: That's like the original sin for this podcast. You don't read?!
Ana: I actually rewatched Age of Ultron the other day. I liked it more. Twist.
Renay: Well guys, it nice knowing you. The Fangirl Happy Hour had a good run, but it's over now.
Renay: As Ana has just admitted a sin so bad that not even I can let it go.
Ana: I give the best life advice! [laughter]
Renay: That's gonna be your legacy.
[beep] [beep]


Substitute Shane Ferguson's brilliant late double earned Millwall a place in the FA Cup fourth round as they came from behind to record a 2-1 win over Hull at the Den.
In a game of few clear-cut chances, a much-changed Hull side had taken the lead shortly after half-time, when Jon Toral combined well with Nouha Dicko and finished tidily.
But Ferguson levelled the scores with nine minutes to go when he took a short corner, got the ball back and curled a sumptuous finish into the top corner.
His second, three minutes later, was even better, a free-kick floated past George Long and into the net.
It was harsh on the Hull keeper who, for 80 minutes, had been superb to keep out the home side, but was no match for Ferguson's magic.
For long periods this was not a game that looked like producing such drama or quality. Hull made eight changes, clearly prioritising the league where they have been in superb form recently, while Millwall looked sluggish.
After a soporific first half-hour, the game finally sparked into life with a flurry of chances.
Aiden O'Brien came closest to breaking the deadlock before the break, first firing wide from Tom Elliott's flick-on, then seeing his header from point-blank range brilliantly clawed away by Long.
Seconds later it was the home keeper, Jordan Archer, who was called into action, getting down well to push away Todd Kane's first-time shot, after good work down the left from David Milinkovic.
Barely two minutes later, Millwall spurned another glorious chance to go ahead as O'Brien left Jed Wallace's cross to his strike partner Elliott, only for the big man to get the ball stuck in his feet five yards out, with the goal gaping, allowing Long to gather.
There would have been nothing the Hull keeper could have done about O'Brien's next chance, as he deftly flicked another Wallace cross towards the near post, only to see it flash inches wide.
The Hull opener was against the run of play but came from the best move of the game.
Toral carried the ball through midfield unchallenged before feeding Dicko and continuing his run into the box. Dicko's cross was perfectly weighted and Toral deftly touched it home.
In response Neil Harris made a triple substitution to try and spark his side into life, introducing Ferguson, who turned the game on its head.
With time running out the full-back produced a contender for goal of the season with his clever short corner routine and then, with a replay looming, delivered from a free-kick to earn the Lions a spot in the fourth round.


Bicycle commuting can be daunting for people who have never done it, and sometime it helps to have a buddy. That's the premise behind SEMCOG's new bike match service, which pairs compatible cyclists together, much like it already does with carpooling and vanpooling. In fact, users can mix and match between the modes once they register. If you're already bike commuting, it wouldn't hurt to register to demonstrate strength in numbers. Read all about and sign up here. Catch the Freep's coverage here and m-bike's here.


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Home Research > Members > 1660-1690 > GORE, Gerard (c.1653-c.1706)
GORE, Gerard (c.1653-c.1706), of Garlick Hill, London and Tunstall, Kent.
b. c.1653, o.s. of Robert Gore, mercer, of Maiden Lane, London. m. lic. 8 Feb. 1675, aged 22, Thomasine (d. 1 Jan. 1708), da. of Edward Hales I of Chilston and coh. to her bro. Edward, 3s. 2da. suc. fa. 1668.1
Commr. for assessment, Kent 1689-1705.
Gore, a cousin of Sir John Gore, came of a well-established London merchant family. It was presumably through his father-in-law's influence that he was returned for Queenborough as an opponent of the Court in 1681; but the 'Mr Gore' or 'George' whose name appears with some prominence in the records of the Oxford Parliament must have been William Leverson Gower. He was defeated at Queenborough in 1690, but his name continued to appear on the Kent assessment commissions till 1707, when he was replaced by his son Robert. None of his descendants sat in Parliament.2
Author: Basil Duke Henning
1. G. E. Cokayne, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 74; E. R. Mores, Hist. Tunstall, 36.
2. Hasted, Kent, v. 409; N. and Q. (ser. 11), v. 174; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 2), ii. 226, 349; Kent RO, Qb/RP, p. 1.

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React Tag Custom is a simple tagging component ready to drop in your React projects. Orininally based on The React Tags project by Prakhar Srivastav this version removes the drag-and-drop functionality.
Here's a sample implementation that initializes the component with a list of initial tags and suggestions list. Apart from this, there are multiple events, handlers for which need to be set. For more details, go through the API.
An array of tags that are displayed as pre-selected. Each tag should have an id and text property which is used to display.
An array of suggestions that are used as basis for showing suggestions. At the moment, this should be an array of strings.
Specifies which characters should terminate tags input (default: enter and tab). An array of character codes.
The placeholder shown for the input. Defaults to Add new tag.
let placeholder = "Add new country"
Provide an alternative label property for the tags. Defaults to text.
This is useful if your data uses the text property for something else.
To assert control over the suggestions filter, you may contribute a function that is executed whenever a filtered set of suggestions is expected. By default, the text input value will be matched against each suggestion, and [those that start with the entered text][default-suggestions-filter-logic] will be included in the filters suggestions list. If you do contribute a custom filter function, you must return an array of suggestions. Please do not mutate the passed suggestions array.
Optional boolean param to control whether the text-input should be autofocused on mount.
Optional boolean param to control whether tags should be deleted when the 'Delete' key is pressed in an empty Input Box.
How many characters are needed for suggestions to appear (default: 2).
The "ReactTags__remove" className and onClick handler properties can be automatically included on the <button> by using the JSX spread attribute, as illustrated above.
true - when delimeter key (such as enter) is pressed, first matching suggestion is used.
This option has no effect if there are no suggestions.
Renders the component in read-only mode without the input box and removeComponent. This also disables the drag-n-drop feature.
The name attribute added to the input.
The id attribute added to the input.
The maxLength attribute added to the input. Specifies the maximum number of characters allowed in the input field.
The inline attributes decides whether the input fields and selected tags will be rendered in-line.
An example can be found in /example/reactTags.css.
If you need to set your own class names on the component, you may pass in a classNames prop.
The component is written in ES6 and uses Webpack as its build tool.
Got ideas on how to make this better? Open an issue!


CARABAO CUP DRAW: Starsport brings you all you need to about the semi-final draw as Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester and Burton Albion discovered their fates.
Manchester City edged past Leicester last night on penalties to book their spot while Burton Albion beat Middlesbrough to seal their place.
Arsenal's clash with Tottenham was the headline act this evening and it was the visitors who had the last laugh a the Emirates.
Goals from Heung-min Son and Dele Alli saw Spurs record a comfortable 2-0 win over their rivals.
Over at Stamford Bridge, Eden Hazard's strike was enough for Chelsea to see off Bournemouth.
What are the Carabao Cup semi-final ties?
When are the Carabao Cup semi-finals being played?
The first legs will be played the week commencing Monday, January 7 with the second legs getting under way the week commencing Monday, January 21.
Television presenter Piers Morgan, an Arsenal supporter, performed the semi-final draw alongside Peter Crouch wearing a Spurs shirt.
The forfeit came after Morgan lost a £1,000 charity bet to former Tottenham striker Crouch on the outcome of Wednesday's match at the Emirates.
Him and former Spurs striker Crouch had a bet that the loser of either side must don a shirt of the opposite side.
And the Good Morning Britain presenter was not happy, if his Twitter is anything to go by.
He tweeted: "I'm 14 minutes away from having to do the live @Carabao_Cup semi-final draw on @SkySports in a bloody Spurs shirt.


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Q: Django: how to add ckeditor plugins to my project using django i want to add some plugins to my ckeditor django, i have installed the package using pip, installed it in settings.py and it's working now, but i want to add some more buttons to the ckeditor as all is have now is bold, align, media, emoji and some more , but i need some feature like code-snippets etc. so where should i add these plugins that i copied from the documentation https://django-ckeditor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#installation
a11yhelp, about, adobeair, ajax, autoembed, autogrow, autolink, bbcode, clipboard, codesnippet,
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A: see the sample configuration and extraPlugins: https://django-ckeditor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#example-ckeditor-configuration
CKEDITOR_CONFIGS = {
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            'autogrow',
            # 'devtools',
            'widget',
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            'clipboard',
            'dialog',
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A very high vantage spot in Assassin's Creed Origins, a game that was in development while at least three other Assassin's Creeds were also being built.
There has been one major new Assassin's Creed game every year since 2007, except for the two years they skipped and the one year when they made two. It's never been a secret that Ubisoft rotates teams, but it's never been as clear how they do it until a talk given by the head of the franchise at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last month.
"It only could be done working with multiple core teams," Assassin's Creed franchise head Jean Guesdon said, "I'm not talking about multiple teams collaborating on one game. This was a brand-new thing." It was new for Ubisoft, of course, though Activision was doing something similar with Call of Duty.
He then showed a chart that marks the division of major labor across the series' past decade.
Chart showing the main teams behind the major Assassin's Creed games. Note that Black Flag was started after Unity but released before it.
Surprisingly, Guesdon's chart shows that development on 2014's Assassin's Creed Unity, the first game in the series for the PS4/Xbox One generation of consoles, actually began before development on 2013's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, a game that Guesdon was creative director on.
Guesdon's chart simplifies things, obviously. The lead visionary behind the first three Assassin's Creed games, Patrice Désilets, split from Ubisoft during the development of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and so the line leading from Brotherhood to Unity is not quite as smooth as it seems.
The green and gray circles for the Ubisoft Quebec City team represent expansions that studio made for ACIII and Black Flag, the latter being the acclaimed Freedom Cry that was later released as a standalone adventure. Quebec City went on to make the distinct, high-quality Assassin's Creed Syndicate in very little time.
Assassin's Creed games, like most Ubisoft mega-games, are made by a United Nations' Security Council worth of Ubisoft studios, many of them in support roles. Ubisoft Singapore, for example, did the dramatic, linear hidden location missions in early AC games and went on to handle a lot of the naval action in Black Flag. Much of that studio is now making the non-AC Ubisoft pirate game Skull & Bones.
Guesdon said that Ubisoft has shifted from having collaborative studios to "co-development." With the former approach, he said it was always possible to cut the work the collaborative studio was doing. With co-development, he said, the contributions have become more integral.
To demonstrate how that was done for Assassin's Creed Origins, he showed the game's vast world map, with red and blue areas marked for regions that were designed by Ubisoft Sofia (in Blugaria) and Ubisoft Singapore, respectively.
Ubisoft Montreal led development of AC Origins. Two other studios handled several features like pyramids and naval experiences as well as the design and quests of two huge sections of the game's map.
As someone who is just now playing through the northwest part of Origins' map, I can confirm that that area does indeed feel like it was made by distinct creative hands. Quests in that section, for example, are more intricately interwoven compared to quests in other parts of the game. It's no surprise that Ubi Sofia would be able to do high-quality work in their sector of Origins. After all, as Guesdon's chart reminded everyone, they once led development of an AC game themselves, 2014's Assassin's Creed Rogue.
Now, of course, the guessing game is about who will make the next Assassin's Creed. It sure look like it's Quebec City's turn, unless whatever remains of that first Montreal team is primed for another go 'round.
Guesdon's full hour-long presentation, which covers a decade of Assassin's Creed game development philosophy and includes some interesting behind-the-scenes looks at multiple games in the franchise, can be viewed at the Game Developer's Conference video vault site..


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Once upon a time you despised Valentine's Day. All the red, the roses, the chocolate, the restaurant reservations.
Then you met HIM (your significant other, not Jesus), and it all changed. You couldn't wait for the big day. Instead of envying or scorning the couples eating those overpriced prix fixe meals at restaurants, you wisely and naughtily planned evenings in.
But once the kids came, it turned into something else altogether. A day where you sprinted all over town buying cupcakes, candy and/or cards for every child in the class, and then felt a strong urge to bust out your best Karaoke version of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling."
It can be so hard to keep the heat in Valentine's Day, don't you think? Take this quiz and see if you and your partner are a bonfire of passion, a slow burn, or more like a wet blanket and a match.
You've been planning what you'd do for Valentine's Day 2013 for________ .
c. Oh crap! Anyone got some Hershey's kisses and a red sharpie?
You want to get your husband an inspirational/interactive book – something You're thinking______.
To make your husband weak in the knees this February 14th, you will ________.
a. rock lingerie that'll make Victoria's Secret models look like nuns.
b. cook something so tasty, his heart will stop – in a good way!
The biggest obstacle to intimacy has been ____________ .
a. nothing - a cobra, fire ants and a chastity belt couldn't stop us!
To rekindle the fires you would need ______________ .
c. medications unapproved by the FDA.
Time to 'fess up. What'd you score?


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Home Legal Topics Foreclosure Homeowners' Associations (HOAs & COAs) Condominium Owners' Association (COAs)
Texas HOA and COA Foreclosures
If you fail to pay your HOA or COA assessments in Texas, the association can usually get a lien on your home and might foreclose.
By Amy Loftsgordon, Attorney
When you buy a single-family home, townhome, or condominium that's part of a planned community with covenants, you'll most likely pay fees and assessments, often collectively called "assessments," to a homeowners' association (HOA) or condominium owners' association (COA). If you fall behind in the assessments, the association will likely first try to collect the debt using traditional methods. For instance, the association will probably call you and send letters. But if those tactics don't get you to pay up, the association will probably try other ways to collect from you. The association might take away your privileges to use the common facilities or file a lawsuit to get a money judgment against you. Most HOAs and COAs also have the power to get a lien on your property if you become delinquent in assessments. Not only will an assessments lien cloud the title to the property, which hinders your ability to sell or refinance the home, but the property can also be foreclosed to force a sale to a new owner—even if the property has a mortgage.
Different sets of state laws often govern HOAs in subdivision communities and COAs. The Texas Residential Property Owners Protection Act (Title 11, Chapter 209 of the Texas Property Code) covers HOA activities in the state, while the Uniform Condominium Act (Title 7, Chapter 82 of the Texas Property Code) governs condominiums created after January 1, 1994. The provisions of the Uniform Condominium Act discussed in this article also apply to condominiums created before 1994. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.002). The two sets of laws are similar, but with some differences.
If your home is part of an HOA or COA and you fall behind in assessments in Texas:
The HOA or COA can usually get a lien on your home.
The association typically can charge you for overdue assessments, late charges, interest, and attorneys' fees and costs.
If the association chooses to foreclose the lien, the process might be judicial or nonjudicial
An association can't foreclose a lien that consists solely of fines.
You have the right to redeem the property after an HOA or COA forecloses.
If the HOA or COA initiates a foreclosure, you might have a defense to the action, or you might be able to negotiate a way to get caught up on the overdue amounts and save your home.
How HOA and COA Liens Work, Generally
Based on the association's Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) and state law, an HOA or COA can usually get a lien on your home if you're delinquent in paying the assessments. In some cases, the association will record its lien with the county recorder to provide public notice that the lien exists, regardless of whether state law requires recording.
An HOA or COA's Right to Get a Lien On Your Home
In Texas, an HOA gets the authority to collect assessments and place a lien on your home primarily from its governing documents, such as the CC&Rs. COAs, on the other hand, get this right from state law. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.102(a)(2), § 82.113). (A COA will also often include a provision in its governing documents about its right to collect assessments and place a lien on the condo if the owner falls behind in payments, just to cover all bases.)
Perfection of the HOA or COA Lien in Texas
State law provides that a COA lien is automatically created when the condominium declaration (the instrument that created the condominium) is recorded. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.113(c)). This action constitutes record notice and perfection of the lien. Unless the declaration provides otherwise, no other recordation of a lien or notice of lien is required.
Texas doesn't have a comparable law for HOAs. So, an HOA declaration will often state that a lien is automatically created when the declaration is recorded. Many HOAs record notices of assessments lien in the county records as well.
Look Out for Legal Changes
In this article, you'll find details on laws covering HOA and COA liens in Texas, with citations to statutes so you can learn more. Statutes change, so checking them is always a good idea. How courts and agencies interpret and apply the law can also change. And some rules can even vary within a state. These are just some of the reasons to consider consulting an attorney.
Charges the HOA or COA May Include in Its Lien
Texas law sets out the types of charges that a COA may include in the assessments lien. Unless the association's governing documents provide otherwise, the lien may consist of:
unpaid assessments
late fees
collection costs
attorneys' fees
fines, and
any other amount the homeowner owes the COA. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.113(a)).
To find out which charges an HOA may include in its lien, review the association's governing documents.
HOA and COA Lien Foreclosures in Texas
State laws often place particular due process requirements on HOAs and COAs regarding how and when an association can foreclose an assessments lien. For instance, Texas law doesn't permit an HOA or COA to foreclose a lien that consists of just fines.
COA Foreclosures
A COA may foreclose its lien judicially or nonjudicially, except that the association may not foreclose a lien that consists solely of fines. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.113(e)). Nonjudicial foreclosures are governed by Chapter 51 of the Texas Property Code. But the declaration might limit the association to judicial foreclosures only.
HOA Foreclosures
An HOA in Texas may foreclose its assessments lien:
judicially or
nonjudicially (if the governing documents expressly authorize it and if the HOA first obtains authorization from the court through an expedited judicial procedure, unless the owner opts out of the expedited process). (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 209.0092(c)). After the HOA gets a court order giving it authority to foreclose nonjudicially, it uses the same process that COAs use to nonjudicially foreclose under Chapter 51 of the Texas Property Code.
Also, the declaration might restrict the type of foreclosure process. And an HOA may not foreclose a lien for assessments that consists solely of:
attorney's fees that are solely associated with fines, or
amounts due to the HOA for compiling, producing, and reproducing its records. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 209.009).
Homestead Protections in Texas
HOAs must determine if the homestead exemption that the Texas Constitution (Tex. Const. art. XVI, § 50) grants to homeowners affects its ability to foreclose. To avoid the homestead exemption, an HOA's assessment lien must attach on or before the homeowner took title to the lot. Generally, an assessment lien attaches when the document describing the lien, like the declaration, is filed in the real property records. But the specific language in an HOA's declaration might cause issues with lien priority and ultimately affect a HOA's ability to foreclose due to the homestead exemption. If you have questions about the Texas homestead exemption and how it potentially impacts your HOA's ability to foreclose, talk to a lawyer
Right of Redemption Following Foreclosure
Texas law provides homeowners with a redemption period following an HOA or COA foreclosure.
Redemption Period After an HOA Forecloses
If an HOA forecloses, the former owner may redeem the home within 180 days from the date the HOA mails the homeowner a post-foreclosure notice of redemption rights. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 209.011(b)).
Redemption Period After a COA Forecloses
If a COA forecloses, the former owner may redeem the unit within 90 days after the date of the foreclosure sale. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.113(g)).
Cost to Redeem
To redeem the property if the HOA or COA purchases the property at the foreclosure sale, you must pay:
all amounts due to the association at the time of the foreclosure sale
reasonable attorneys' fees and costs
any assessments levied after the foreclosure sale, and
any reasonable costs incurred by the association, including maintenance and leasing costs. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 209.011(d), § 82.113(g)).
Texas Timeshare Foreclosures
In Texas, like a foreclosure by an HOA or COA, a timeshare foreclosure can be either judicial or nonjudicial.
HOA and COA Liens and Your Mortgage
A common misconception is that the association can't foreclose if you're current with your mortgage payments. But an association's right to foreclose isn't dependent on whether you're current on your mortgage payments. Instead, lien priority determines what happens in a foreclosure.
What Is Lien Priority?
The priority of liens establishes who gets paid first following a foreclosure sale and often determines whether a lienholder will get paid at all. Liens generally follow the "first in time, first in right" rule, which says that whichever lien is recorded first in the land records has higher priority than later recorded liens. A first-lien has a higher priority than other liens and gets the first crack at the foreclosure sale proceeds. If any proceeds are left after the first lien is paid in full, the excess proceeds go to the second lienholder until that lien is paid off. And so on. A lien with a low priority might get nothing from a foreclosure sale.
But state law or an association's governing documents might adjust lien priority.
Lien Priority of HOA and COA Liens in Texas
A COA lien for unpaid assessments has priority over all other liens except:
a lien for real property taxes (and other governmental assessments)
a lien or encumbrance recorded before the declaration is recorded
a lien for the construction of improvements or an assignment of the right to insurance proceeds recorded before the date the assessment becomes delinquent (unless the declaration provides otherwise), and
a first mortgage or deed of trust recorded before the date on which the assessment becomes delinquent. (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 82.113(b)).
To find out the priority of an HOA lien, check the association's governing documents. Most Texas HOA documents state that state tax liens and certain mortgages, like first mortgages, have priority over an assessments lien.
So, a foreclosure by an HOA or COA usually won't eliminate a first mortgage because the association's lien is normally lower in priority.
Talk to a Lawyer If You're Facing an HOA or COA Foreclosure
Texas laws covering HOA and COA foreclosures are complicated and extensive. If you're facing an HOA or COA foreclosure in Texas, consider consulting with a foreclosure attorney to discuss all legal options available in your particular circumstances.
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Eliza's Story
The Eliza Project
Eliza's Orphanage
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Eliza's Story?
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BE A PART OF ELIZA'S LEGACY — SUPPORT THE GRAHAM WINDHAM COMMUNITY.
GRAHAM WINDHAM IS ELIZA'S LIVING LEGACY
215 years later, Eliza Hamilton's orphanage — now a family services agency called Graham Windham — is still helping kids get their shot. Graham Windham serves thousands of kids and families each year. Just like Eliza's husband, these kids survived a tough start in life. Graham Windham provides services like family counseling and treatment, after-school academic support, health services, and other services that help kids thrive into adulthood.
EXPLORE GRAHAM WINDHAM
"Can I show you what I'm proudest of? I established the first private orphanage in New York City."
ELIZA HAMILTON IN HAMILTON THE MUSICAL
JOIN GRAHAM WINDHAM IN FIGHTING TO GIVE EVERY KID & FAMILY THEIR SHOT
1 Phillipa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda in 'Hamilton' (photo by Joan Marcus)
2 Ralph Earl, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (Mrs. Alexander Hamilton), 1787, Museum of the City of New York, 71.31.2
Quotation from "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?" from the Broadway Musical, "Hamilton"
Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lifelong Rockville Centre resident Gus Lanzo died on Feb. 1 due to a hemorrhage. He was 88.
Lanzo was born on Oct. 21, 1924 and raised in Rockville Centre. When he was old enough, he was drafted to fight in World War II. But his brother, Frank, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, so Lanzo was never deployed outside of the country.
After the war, Lanzo and his family traveled to Italy. There he met and married Julie Prochilo in Calabria in 1947. The couple returned to America and started a life together in Rockville Centre.
Lanzo spent his life working as a contractor, working from the time he returned to America until he became sick three and a half years ago.
Lanzo was also very active in his community. He served as an usher at St. Agnes for 25 years before he changed parishes to St. Anthony's in Oceanside to be closer to his family. There he also served as usher.
He was the Commander of the American Legion Post No. 303 in Rockville Centre for about eight years and also served as Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus in Oceanside, the country's largest Knights of Columbus chapter.
"Anything he did, he put in his heart and soul," Julie said.


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Q: PostgreSQL streaming replication lag for synchronous standbys We use PostgreSQL 9.5 in a master + synchronous hot-standby setup, i.e., using synchronous_commit = on and using synchronous_standby_names='*'.
Consequently, the standby has sync_state = sync in the master's pg_stat_replication_table.
We also use postgres_exporter, which uses the following statement to extract the system's replication lag from the master's stats.
SELECT *, pg_current_xlog_location(),
       pg_xlog_location_diff(pg_current_xlog_location(), replay_location)::float
FROM pg_stat_replication;

Question: Does the above call to pg_xlog_location_diff always return 0 in a synchronous setup, or are there any cases when there is a measurable replication lag?
To my understanding, if the above statement shows a lag, it means that the master has committed a transaction without waiting for the standby, which should never happen in a synchronous setup.
Note that we moreover use replication slots, have setup the cluster using repmgr, and do not override synchronous_commit locally for individual transactions.

A: The pg_xlog_location_diff within your query may  return more than 0.
There are three writing timing of WAL data to WAL segment file: 1) When a transaction is committed, 2) When WAL buffer is filled up, 3) When WAL writer process writes periodically (default is 200 milliseconds).
And basic sequence of streaming replication is shown below:

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*(master) Write WAL data.

*(master) Send WAL data to a slave.

*(slave) Receive WAL data and replay it.

*(slave) Return some information (e.g. replay location, receive location, flushed location.)

I show an extreme example to clarify the problem. If you run a long transaction to insert huge data, master continues to send WAL data  till the transaction is committed.  When you issue your query during the period from 2 to 3, pg_current_xlog_location() returns the current location whereas replay_location returns the previous replay location, pg_xlog_location_diff(pg_current_xlog_location(), replay_location) therefore returns more than 0.
Other case is the following: The configuration parameter max_standby_*_delay is enable and a conflict occurs, your standby suspends replaying WAL data, therefore pg_xlog_location_diff() returns more than 0.
(Both of examples are logical extreme cases.)
In any case, I think your problem does not depend on whether replication mode is sync or async. The difference between sync and async is that the master confirms a synchronous slave commits transactions or not.
Your problem is related to general sequence of WAL data sending and replaying, but is not depend on the synchronous mode.
(Consider how a long transaction is committed in synchronous mode. I discussed what happens when your query is issued  during the period from 2 to 3 (it's very short period) in the streaming replication sequence I showed. I did not discussed when transaction is committed because it is not essential of the answer, i think.)